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Gestational weight management and pregnancy outcomes among women of advanced maternal age

  • Authors:
    • Juan Lin
    • Yuelin Fu
    • Qing Han
    • Jianying Yan
    • Rongxin Chen
    • Huale Zhang
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  • Published online on: July 9, 2019     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2019.7752
  • Pages: 1723-1728
  • Copyright: © Lin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

In this study, we assessed the effects of pre‑pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) on the pregnancy outcomes of women of advanced age using a back‑propagation (BP) artificial neural network. We conducted a retrospective analysis on postpartum and hospital delivery data from 1,015 women of advanced maternal age (AMA) hospitalized at the Fujian Provincial Maternity and Children's Hospital from January to June, 2017. Pre‑pregnancy overweight was found to increase the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), hypertensive disorders complicating pregnancy (HDCP) and fetal macrosomia. In addition, poor weight gain during pregnancy increased the chances of pre-term births (PTBs). Furthermore, excessive weight gain during pregnancy increased the incidence of macrosomia in women of AMA. On the whole, the findings of this study suggest that controlling the pre‑pregnancy BMI and the GWG may reduce the incidence of adverse pregnancy outcomes in women of AMA. The BP neural network is suitable for the study of weight changes in this population.
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Lin J, Fu Y, Han Q, Yan J, Chen R and Zhang H: Gestational weight management and pregnancy outcomes among women of advanced maternal age. Exp Ther Med 18: 1723-1728, 2019
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Lin, J., Fu, Y., Han, Q., Yan, J., Chen, R., & Zhang, H. (2019). Gestational weight management and pregnancy outcomes among women of advanced maternal age. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 18, 1723-1728. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2019.7752
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Lin, J., Fu, Y., Han, Q., Yan, J., Chen, R., Zhang, H."Gestational weight management and pregnancy outcomes among women of advanced maternal age". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 18.3 (2019): 1723-1728.
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Lin, J., Fu, Y., Han, Q., Yan, J., Chen, R., Zhang, H."Gestational weight management and pregnancy outcomes among women of advanced maternal age". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 18, no. 3 (2019): 1723-1728. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2019.7752